[oc] Re: legality of cores?!

[Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:39:11AM -0700, Nicolas Quijano wrote:
> 
> Just nitpicking, but hasn't Porsche and Vw been owned by the same
> conglomerate for ages (as well as another German car manufacturer ??)
> : case in point, the 914 Porsche (if I'm not mistaken), which had a
> beetle engine, you know, the only cheap Porsche ever built... 
>
> As I said, nitpicking... :)

More nitpicking on week old posts:  The original VW Beetle was designed
by a certain Ferdinand Porsche, the first cars that bear the name
Porsche by his son.  A Porsche does look a lot like the original Beetle
after all, only flattened and streamlined.  The older, the more obvious.

> nicolas
> 
> >Because information is available freely, you are still not allowed
> >to copy a design. E.g.: Everybody knows what a Porsche looks like.
> >VW ones had a "upgrade" for the beetle to make it look like a Porsche.

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